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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Seriously ...!?',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/04/24.jpg" alt="Purple flowers" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="IRA">
	<h2>Those $a[IRA] company morons</h2>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve gotten really tired of dealing with those $a[IRA] people.
		I gave up today and started trying to debug their stupid website from my end.
		I stood half a chance at best, seeing as I only have access to the code sent to my Web browser, while there&apos;s also a bunch of back-end stuff.
		Come to think of it, I stood less than half a chance, as the problem was most likely purely in the back end.
		However, I lucked out.
		It seems their Web form is constructed in one of the most idiotic fashions possible: the visible fields have no effect whatsoever, and changing them causes JavaScript to alter invisible fields to match.
		As I have JavaScript disabled when school is in session, the defective Web form didn&apos;t function.
		To test my theory, I kept JavaScript disabled and altered the invisible fields by hand.
		It was a pain, but I got the form entirely filled out down to what I think was the last page.
		My ultimate plan was to tell off the support team in an email, but something on the final page halted me in my tracks: there was a mandatory consent field.
		They&apos;ve been threatening to take my money without my consent, but now they claim they <strong>*do*</strong> need my consent?
		Screw them.
		I&apos;ll just not use their service, and if they ever take my money and refuse to provide support for their idiotic Web form, I&apos;ll get a lawyer at that time instead of now.
		Sure, I now have the solution, but if they&apos;re going to take my money without my consent, they&apos;re going to do their job and provide support for the mess they made.
		Without a telephone call.
		Or they&apos;re getting sued and (hopefully) forced by the court to provide telephone-free support to future clients.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drawing">
	<h2>Drawing</h2>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve forgotten the lucky ending digit again.
		I guess the longer I neglect to compile the data I&apos;ve already gathered, the less I continue caring.
		I think I&apos;m just going to drop this experiment.
		If I ever decide to care again, I still have more than ten weeks straight of recorded numbers, which is all I need to check for a pattern.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="writing">
	<h2>I write like a programmer.</h2>
	<p>
		While I was out, I ran into some people with petitions in need of signing.
		For example, one was to require corporations to be transparent with their tax information.
		The issue cited was that corporations often get to go tax-free for a number of years as an insentive to get them into an area and bring jobs, but then just before the tax-free duration is up, they leave.
		If they do that, they&apos;ll have to be honest about it if this goes through, which would discourage them from engaging in such underhanded tactics.
		Another is to close a loophole that lets the government add taxes without going through the usual tax-approval system by simply labelling those taxes not as &quot;taxes&quot;, but as &quot;fees&quot;.
	</p>
	<p>
		Anyway, the person handling the corporate tax transparency petition said I write like a programmer.
		They wouldn&apos;t go into detail as to what exactly that entails, but they said they used to work with programmers in the past and they tend to write the way I do.
		I guess that means I probably <strong>*think*</strong> like a programmer, which isn&apos;t really news to me.
		I just didn&apos;t know programmers had a different writing style.
		I guess I take that as a compliment, seeing as programmers think more logically than people from most other fields.
		Of course, other fields have logical thinkers as well, such as science-based fields.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I&apos;d recommend elaborating on what you mean by a &quot;DC problem&quot;?
			What kind of problem results in the direct current of the line if a continuous stream of the same bit occurs?
			Basically, it&apos;s an issue of energy loss.
			It&apos;s not the worst problem possible, but it does mean that it takes more energy to power the connection with no gain to show for it.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
END
);
